Ndinda Kusu
Ndinda Kusu
Country Director, MTaPS and Sub-award Program Monitor, USAID Tamatisha TB, Kenya
Ndinda Kusu is an experienced clinical pharmacist as well as a specialist in public health, program management, and health systems strengthening. She has over 25 years of experience working with the private, public, and faith-based health sectors to strengthen supply chain and pharmaceutical systems to increase access to, and the use of, medicines and health technologies for conditions such as HIV, TB, malaria, and non-communicable diseases as well as for maternal, newborn, and child health. Kusu is MSH’s Program Monitor for the USAID Tamatisha TB project and supports supply chain, pharmaceutical, and pharmacovigilance interventions. She also serves as MSH’s country director for the Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) Program in Kenya, where she supports governance; institutional and human resource capacity development; continuous quality improvement; the promotion of the rational use of antimicrobials and efforts to curb antimicrobial resistance; and strengthening regulatory systems with a focus on post-marketing surveillance and pharmacovigilance. Kusu is a member of several health professional associations, as well as technical and advisory committees. She holds a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Nairobi in Kenya, a master’s degree in clinical pharmacy from Queens University of Belfast, Ireland, and a master’s degree in public health from the University of Liverpool, UK.